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A tentative agreement to sell the Miami Dolphins has disintegrated over problems involving ownership of Joe Robbie Stadium, the Robbie family said on Friday, but a new ownership group has stepped in. The new group is led by J. Morton Davis, 64, a self-made multimillionaire from New York whose investment firm, D.H. Blair Investment Banking Corp., is the subject of a four-year investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Tim, Janet and Dan Robbie said they have a tentative agreement to sell the Dolphins to the Davis group.

After 27 years of ownership, the Robbie family has agreed to sell the Miami Dolphins to a businessman whose empire was founded on junk bonds and now includes Arby`s and Royal Crown Cola. A letter of intent to sell the team to investor Nelson Peltz includes the Robbie family`s 50 percent share of Joe Robbie Stadium and preserves a role for the family in managing and owning the team. At least two cards must be played before the deal is done. South Florida sports and video magnate H. Wayne Huizenga, who holds a minority stake in the Dolphins, has the right to match any offer to buy the team.

Life`s two certainties, death and taxes, have led to uncertainty over the Robbie family`s ownership of the Dolphins. Burdened by heavy estate taxes and a settlement with feuding siblings, Tim, Janet and Dan Robbie -- the three trustees chosen to run the team -- are exploring ways to raise cash. A partial or full sale of the team or Joe Robbie Stadium looms, and minority owner Wayne Huizenga could be poised to act. According to a source familiar with the 1990 deal between Huizenga and the Robbies, Huizenga has an option to match any majority offer for the team.

When the Dolphins defeated the Bills 37-10 on Oct. 4, Dan Robbie, executive vice president of the team, was absent. He was helping his wife, Rhonda, who was delivering the couple`s first child, Erica Elizabeth. The baby was born at 3:22 p.m., probably somewhere in the third quarter. "When I called and told Dan it was time for the baby to come, he wanted to know if there was a television around," Rhonda said. Erica Elizabeth was 6 weeks old Sunday night and in attendance for Monday night`s game.

A settlement has been reached in the dispute over the estate of Joe Robbie, and attorneys for the two sides are expected to present it this morning to Dade Circuit Judge Edmund Newbold. Newbold is to preside over a valuation hearing today. If no last-minute obstacles prevent the settlement from being finalized and presented, the hearing would be avoided and the case likely dismissed. The settlement keeps family finances confidential and prevents public valuation of the Dolphins franchise.

Elizabeth Robbie, widow of Dolphins owner Joe Robbie, cut a son and daughter who had been feuding with her over her husband`s estate out of her will. "I have deliberately made no provisions in this will for my children Timothy and Janet...," Elizabeth Robbie had written in the will, filed Tuesday in Dade County. Timothy, president of the Dolphins; Janet; and two other siblings, Dan and Lynn, had been in a bitter battle with their mother over the handling of Joe Robbie`s legacy. Despite Elizabeth Robbie`s death last week, it appears the acrimony will continue.

Elizabeth Robbie, the widow of Dolphins` founder Joe Robbie and former owner of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital in Coconut Grove. Mrs. Robbie spent her last days involved in a court battle with some of her children over the estate of her late husband. All of her children, except a daughter who was flying in from California, were at her bedside Tuesday. A hospital spokesman said on Tuesday night he could not release a cause of death, but Dolphins` broadcaster Rick Weaver, a friend of the family, reported on WIOD that Mrs. Robbie, 69, died of complications of liver and stomach ailments.

MIAMI -- Michael Genden has been a lifelong fan of the Dolphins, but he`s no fan of the team`s owners and said as much in a lawsuit filed on Thursday, challenging their policy on ticket refunds during the player strike. "It`s a kick in the teeth," Genden said. He will get just half of the $480 he paid for six top-flight club seats to Sunday`s game against the Kansas City Chiefs. He said he doesn`t want to attend because the "inferior talent" of the non-union substitute players does not live up to the terms of the ticket contract.

CORAL SPRINGS -- City officials met with representatives of the Miami Dolphins football team on Thursday in their continued attempt to woo the team`s training camp to Coral Springs. "It was a very preliminary-type meeting to see about the availability of building a training camp in Coral Springs," Dolphins representative Dan Robbie said. "We had a lot of questions and they had a lot of questions. I`m sure we`ll be getting in touch to go into more details." Robbie, 25, a son of Dolphins owner Joe Robbie, toured Coral Springs and had lunch with city officials.